“But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.”
Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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Michael Chabon 96
Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963Related quotes
Bingen on the Rhine.
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Variant: The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
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“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
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“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”
“The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.”
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
Context: A fairytale, a sonata, a gathering storm, a limitless night, seizes you and sweeps you away: do you begin at once to wrestle with it and ask whence its power over you, whither it is carrying you? The law of each is in the mind of its composer; that law makes one man feel this way, another man feel that way. To one the sonata is a world of odour and beauty, to another of soothing only and sweetness. To one, the cloudy rendezvous is a wild dance, with a terror at its heart; to another, a majestic march of heavenly hosts, with Truth in their centre pointing their course, but as yet restraining her voice. The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
I will go farther. The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. The best Nature does for us is to work in us such moods in which thoughts of high import arise. Does any aspect of Nature wake but one thought? Does she ever suggest only one definite thing? Does she make any two men in the same place at the same moment think the same thing? Is she therefore a failure, because she is not definite? Is it nothing that she rouses the something deeper than the understanding — the power that underlies thoughts? Does she not set feeling, and so thinking at work? Would it be better that she did this after one fashion and not after many fashions? Nature is mood-engendering, thought-provoking: such ought the sonata, such ought the fairytale to be.